Welcome To The 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge – Your Step By Step Guide

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Welcome to the next round of The Healthy Mummy 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge. We are so happy to have you on board with us whether this is your first Challenge or you’ve done one before.
As with all our 28 Day Challenges we have designed them with Mums in mind. The Healthy Mummy team is full of Mums so we know what it’s like – you’re busy, you have family pulling you from here, there and everywhere and you rarely get time to think about doing anything for yourself!
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The Challenge is designed to make it as easy as possible to fit healthy eating plans and time for exercise into every day so that it just becomes part of your usual lifestyle. We are focused on providing you with the tools, resources and support that you need, so that you can be consistent with the changes you are making. As consistency will result in you achieving the goals you set for yourself.

Here is our guide on how to take full advantage of what the Challenge Hub has to offer 
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Navigate

  • If you’ve never done a 28 Day Challenge before then spend some time  getting to know what the Challenge Hub offers. 
  • The Hub has a purple menu bar across the top of the screen that lets you access various tools- recipes and exercises from past Rounds, the blog, a whole list of resources and articles.
  • It’s easy to navigate between Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4, Round 5 before Round 6 is launched –  just click on the pink drop down button on the top left of the Challenge Hub page (it will say either Round 1 or Round 2 or Round 4 depending on which Round you are looking at). Then you can see the resources, recipes and tools from both of the previous Challenges as well. Please note that we recommend using Round 3 or Round 4 as the customisation tool is available on this round so you can really play around with this round

Get Started

  • Start by ensuring your profile is correct and you have entered your starting (or current) measurements. Click your profile name on the right hand side of the screen to update your details or see what you’ve already listed.
  • Then work out what your goals are going to be for this Challenge and the weeks ahead. Use the Food Diary & Motivation and Goals Sheets from one of the previous Challenge rounds, to work out some goals and what will motivate you. These sheets can be found in the Resources section of the Challenge Hub on the left hand side.
  • Remember to have regular mini goals and rewards as well as the ultimate goals to make it easier to achieve what you want. Read about our tips on goal making and staying motivated here to give you some ideas.
  • Look at the articles posted in the previous Challenge Hubs, these are on the right hand side of the screen and there is lots of helpful information about staying/getting motivated, how to save money when doing the Challenges, how to get organised, what other participants have experienced etc.

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Recipes

  • Try out some of the recipes from the previous Challenges. If this is your first Challenge that you’re preparing for then try and introduce some new healthy eating recipes to each day
  • Click through to either of the previous rounds to see the Meal Plans and over 750 recipes or use the Recipe Hub (listed across the top of the screen in the Challenge Hub) to search for recipes using particular ingredients.
  • Or if you’ve just finished the most recent Challenge then continue with your healthy eating diet plan by making some of your favourite recipes from past Rounds in the recipe hub

Check In

  • Check in to the 28 Day Challenge Blog  to see new recipes, ideas and articles each week that will help you on your journey.
  • Or check into the Facebook Private Group to see what others doing the Challenge or those getting ready for the Challenge are doing. Get motivated, ask questions, seek support, share your story and successes – the group is an amazing tool, it’s like your own group of mentors or personal trainers who know what you’re going through and are amazing at offering their help and thoughts when needed.

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Start With A Clean Slate

  • Rather than just going from too many unhealthy choices and straight into the Challenge, why not do a Spring Clean of your cupboards and remove any unhealthy snacks and foods that you know aren’t part of a healthy eating diet plan.
  • You have a month to get organised before the Challenge commences so you could even try the 3 Day Cleanse which is available for free on the Challenge Hub – in the “Other Links To Help You” section. This is a great way to get focused and be prepared for making healthier choices throughout the Challenge.

Whatever you do, don’t waste the weeks before the official start of the next Challenge, use them to see what the Challenge Hub offers you, think about how you need to get organised, work out what you want to achieve from this next Challenge, try out some recipes or continue with your healthy eating from previous Rounds and include some of the exercise routines into your days.
By doing this you’ll soon find you’ve created your own mini 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge to help you continue your great work or to get started on achieving your goals.
If you have a FAQ, see the FAQ page here too